of course we didn't call them jeans.....we called them dungarees......
I take it you are from the East. Nobody in the West
would use the term “dungaree”. I’m talking circa 60s.
When I was in my early teens my family moved to
Hyattsville, MD for a year so my dad could work on
his PhD at U of MD. It was culture shock for a small
town Cali kid. If you wore dungarees of any brand you
were an outcast in Prince Georges County, MD. And there
was actually a brand of denim pants called Dungarees.
I think LEVIS got so big the name became generic for
jeans. Maybe that was true for Dungarees in the East.
Come to think of it other than regional fads there
could also have been a urban/rural aspect to the
clothing styles. Everybody around me in PG County
wore slacks. I got rid of mine fast when we came
back to Cali. By then light blue (baby blue?)
LEVIS were the style and I think they were pre
pegged or maybe just cut tighter in the legs
as compared to 501s.
I could have been your older brother...my mom hated
sewing. She said she got A’s in HS Home Ec in everything
but flunked sewing. My dad probably bought her the
sewing machine w/out knowing that.
The evolution of mass communications has clearly
effected styles. Regional fads in anything seem
rare.